On September 23 the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward Nalbandyan and Elmar Mammedyarov met in New York. Participating in the meeting were the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popoff, Stefan Visconti, Andrew Schofer, as well as the personal representative of the OSCE CiO Andrzej Kasprzyk.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, issues relating to organization of a meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan were discussed. Agreement was reached on the visit of the Minsk Group co-chairs to the region in October.

The Azerbaijani press informed that Baku has agreed to accept some proposals of the co-chairs to resume “substantive” talks.